Improvement in stock-feeders



L. P. COX.

Stuck-Feeders.

Patented March 17. 1874.

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LEVI P. COX, OF BRECKENRIDGE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'STOCK-F'EEDERS.

Specification fcrmirgpart of Letters Patent No. 148,672, dated March 17,1874; application filed May 5, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI P. Cox, of Breckenridge, in the county ofCaldwell and State of Missouri, have invented a new and ImprovedAutomatic Stock Feeder; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

The invention relates to devices wherefrom stock in the field may beconveniently fed with corn in the ear, and without an unnecessary wasteof the grain.

. The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out inthe claim.

Figure l of drawing is a View in sectional e levation; and Fig. 2, aplan of the invention. A represents the box in which the corn is placed,formed of slats correspondingly notched and tongued at the ends, so thatthey cannot slide inward, while they are inclosed by posts E, so thatthey cannot slip outward. In the middle of this box is the usual convexinclined bottom B. C is the table or platform beneath the corn-box, andis extended out on each side, so as to form with the vertical edgepieces D, a feed-trough about the corn-box. The slats A are verticallymovable within the posts E, and may be held at any desired elevation bypins passing through the posts E, and under the lowest slats. In orderto render the feed automatic, and in suitable quantity, it is oftennecessary to raise the slats more or less within the frame E, thusregulating the exact supply that may be demanded. purpose, 1' rest thelowest slats that support all the rest upon metallic rods F, whose endsproject to a greater or less distance Within the trough, and are of asize easy to be handled. These render the lifting of the slats to ahigher adjustment very easy by a single person, who raises one corner ata time and fixes a pin thereunder. These rods also are moved by thenoses of the animals in the trough, and tend to relieve any choking orstoppage of the flow of corn.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with frame E, of movable box A, stationary deflector B,trough and base C D, and rods F, as and for the purpose described.

LEVI PRESTON COX.

Witnesses:

R. J. HUGHES, SAM. RUssEL.

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